Chapter 12 The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of

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 On
to Canada over Land
and Lakes
 The Americans tried to
invade Canada from
Detroit, Niagara, and Lake
Champlain.
 The
Americans then
attacked by sea and were
more successful.
 Oliver Hazard Perrycaptured a British fleet in
Lake Erie.
 General
Harrison's army
overtook the British at
Detroit and Fort Malden in
the Battle of the Thames in
October 1813.
 Thomas
Macdonoughnaval officer who forced
the invading British army
near Plattsburgh to retreat
on September 11, 1814; he
saved the upper New York
from conquest.
 Washington
Burned and
New Orleans Defended
 Andrew Jackson defended
New Orleans.
 Francis
Scott KeyAmerican prisoner aboard a
British ship who watched the
British fleet bombard Fort
McHenry; wrote the "Star
Spangled Banner."
 Washington burned in 1814.
 The
Treaty of Ghent
 Tsar Alexander I of
Russia called the Americans
and British to come to peace
because he didn't want his
British ally to lose strength in
the Americas and let
Napoleon take over Europe.
 The
Treaty of Ghent,
signed on December 24,
1814 in Ghent, Belgium,
was an armistice.
 John
Quincy Adams and
Henry Clay went to Ghent
for the signing.

Both sides stopped
fighting and conquered
territory was restored.
 Federalist
Grievances and
the Hartford Convention
 The Hartford
Convention's final report
demanded:
 Massachusetts,
Connecticut, and Rhode
Island met in 1814 in
Hartford, Connecticut
 The
Hartford
Convention's final report
demanded:
 for
a secret meeting to
discuss their disgust of the
war and to redress their
grievances.
 Financial
assistance from
Washington to compensate
for lost trade from
embargos.
 Constitutional
amendments requiring a
2/3 vote in Congress
before an embargo could
be imposed, new states
admitted, or war declared.
 The
abolition of slavery.
 That a President could only
serve 1 term.
 The abolition of the 3/5
clause.
 The
prohibition of the
election of 2 successive
Presidents from the same
state.
 The
Hartford resolutions
marked the death of the
Federalist party. The party
nominated their last
presidential candidate in
1816.
 The
Second War for
American Independence
 The War of 1812 showed
other nations around the
world that America would
defend its beliefs. .
 The
most impressive byproduct of the War of 1812
was heightened
nationalism
 The
army and navy were
expanded and the Bank of
the United States was
revived by Congress in
1816.
 "The
American System“
 Congress instituted
st
the 1 protective tariff,
the Tariff of
1816, primarily
for protection.
 British
companies were
trying to make American
factories die off by selling
their British goods for
much less than the
American factories.
 The
tariff placed a 20-25%
tax on the value of dutiable
imports.

Over time, the tax price
continued to rise, creating
problems of no competition
between companies.
 Due
to nationalism, Henry
Clay developed a plan for a
profitable home market. It
was called the American
System. It had 3 main
parts:
A
strong banking system,
to provide easy and
abundant credit.
A
protective tariff, behind
which eastern
manufacturing would
flourish.
A
network of roads and
canals.
 President
Madison vetoed
the bill to give states aid
for infrastructure, deeming
it unconstitutional.
 The
Jeffersonian
Democratic-Republicans
were strongly opposed to
building federally-funded
roads
 They
felt that such outlets
would further drain away
population and create
competing states beyond
the mountains.
 The
So-Called Era of Good
Feelings
 The Federalists ran a
candidate for the presidential
for the last time
in 1816. James Monroe won
the election.
 The
time during the
administrations of
President Monroe was
known as the "Era of Good
Feelings" because the 2
political parties were
getting along.
 The
Panic of 1819 and the
Curse of Hard Times

 The
Panic of 1819 was the
first financial panic since
President Washington took
office. The main cause was
the over-speculation in
frontier lands.
 The
Bank of the United
States became a financial
devil to western farmers
because it foreclosed many
farms.
 Growing
Pains of the West
 Between 1791 and
1819, 9 states from the West
had joined the United
States. People moved out
west because of cheap land.
 The
Land Act of
1820 authorized a buyer to
purchase 80 virgin acres at
a minimum of $1.25 an
acre.
 The
West also demanded
cheap transportation and
cheap money.
 Slavery
and the Sectional
Balance
 The House of Representatives
slowed the plans of the
Missourians of becoming a
state by passing
the Tallmadge
Amendment. .
 It
called for no more slaves
to be brought into Missouri
and called for the gradual
emancipation of children
born to slave parents
already there
 The
amendment was later
defeated by the slave states
in Congress.
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The Uneasy Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay introduced the compromise
that decided whether or not Missouri would
be admitted as a slave state. states.
The Missouri Compromise by Congress
forbade slavery in the remaining territories
in the Louisiana Territory north of the line
of 36° 30', except for Missouri.
James Monroe was elected again as
President in 1820.
 Congress
decided to
admit Missouri as a slave
state in 1820.
 But,
Maine, which was
apart of Massachusetts,
was to be admitted as a
separate, free state.
 Therefore,
there were 12
slave states and 12 free
states
John Marshall and Judicial
Nationalism
 McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819)
involved an attempt by the state
of Maryland to destroy a branch
of the Bank of the United States
by imposing a tax on the Bank's
notes. .

 John
Marshall declared the
U.S. Bank constitutional by
invoking the Hamiltonian
doctrine of implied powers
 He
strengthened federal
authority and slapped at
state infringements when
he denied the right of
Maryland to tax the Bank.
 Cohens
vs. Virginia (1821) inv
olved the Cohens appealing
to the Supreme Court for
being found guilty of illegally
selling lottery tickets by the
state of Virginia. Virginia
won and the conviction was
withheld.

Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824) grew out
of an attempt by the state of New
York to grant to a private concern a
monopoly of waterborne commerce
between New York and New
Jersey. (Meaning that no other
company could use the
waterway.) New York
lost.
 Judicial
cases Against
Democratic Excesses
 the next legislature cancelled
the bribery-induced
transaction. The decision
protected property rights
against popular pressures
 Fletcher
vs. Peck (1810) Ge
orgia legislature granted 35
million acres to private
speculators;
 John
Marshall let the state
give the acres to the private
speculators calling it a
contract and constitutional.
 Dartmouth
College vs. Woodward (1819)
Dartmouth College was given
a charter by King George III
but New Hampshire wanted
to take it away. John
Marshall ruled in favor of the
college.
 Sharing
Oregon and
Acquiring
Florida
 John Quincy AdamsSecretary of State to James
Monroe.
 The
Treaty of
1818 permitted the
Americans to share the
Newfoundland fisheries
with the Canadians
 and
provided for a 10-year
joint occupation of the
Oregon Country without a
surrender of the rights or
claims of either America or
Britain.
 With
the many revolutions
taking place in South
America, Spain was forced
to take many of its troops
out of Florida. .
 General
Andrew
Jackson went into Florida
saying he would punish
the Indians and recapture
the runaways who were
hiding away in Spanish
Florida
 The
Florida Purchase
Treaty of 1819, Spain ceded
Florida,
 as
well as Spanish claims to
Oregon in exchange for
America's abandonment of
claims to Texas.
 The
Menace of Monarchy in
America
 After Napoleon's fall from
power in 1815, the Europeans
wanted to
completely eliminate
democracy.
 George
Canning- British
foreign secretary; asked the
American minister in London
if the United States would
band together with the British
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 In
a joint declaration
renouncing any interest in
acquiring Latin American
territory,
 and
specifically warning
the European dictators to
keep their harsh hands off
the Latin American
republics.
 Monroe
and His Doctrine
 Secretary Adams thought
the British feared that the
Americans would one day
seize
 Spanish
territory in the
Americas; jeopardizing
Britain's possessions in the
Caribbean.
 Monroe
Doctrine (1823) President Monroe, in his
annual address to
Congress, stated a stern
warning to the European
powers. .
 Its
two basic features
were noncolonization and
 nonintervention
 Monroe
stated that the era
of colonization in the
Americas was over.
 Monroe
also warned
against foreign
intervention. He warned
Britain to stay out of the
Western Hemisphere
,
and stated that the United
States would not intervene
in foreign wars.
 Monroe's
Doctrine
Appraised
 The Europeans powers were
offended by the Monroe
Doctrine; in a big part because
of America's soft military
strength.
 President
Monroe was
more concerned with
the security of
America when he issued
the Monroe Doctrine.
 He
had basically warned
the Old World power to
stay away. The Doctrine
thrived off nationalism.